BearID Collaboration

In the latest hypraptive post on the BearID project, Kindred Spirits, we announced our collaboration with the Brown Bear Research Network (BBRN). We've also put a call out for photos and videos of bears.

BearID 1.0

We announced the first complete version of our bear face recognition project, BearID 1.0.

NatHab Photo of the Day

My photo of a red-footed booby was selected by Natural Habitat as their Photo of the Day!

The Hypraptive BearID Project

I started working on a new project combining two of my interests: wildlife and machine learning. The goal of the project is to build a facial recognition system for brown bears which can be used by researchers in conjunction with camera traps and citizen science to non-invasively track and monitor populations. The project, BearID, is open source on GitHub and I'm writing about it on the hypraptive blog.

The most recent post is FaceNet for Bears.

African Safari Photo Albums

Photo Album List:

Tanzania

• Lake Manyara
• Gibbs Farm
• Maasai Village
• Olduvai Gorge
• Serengeti National Park
• Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Uganda

• Kibale National Park
• Queen Elizabeth National Park
• Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
• Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary
• Kampala
• Miscellaneous

Rwanda

• Parc National des Volcans
• Miscellaneous

Kenya

• Nairobi

South American Expedition Photo Albums

Photo Album List:

• Ecuador Mainland
• Napo Wildlife Center
• Hacienda Zuleta
• Galapagos Islands
• San Cristobal
• Genovesa
• Bachas Beach and Cerro Dragon (Santa Cruz)
• Punte Vicente Roca and Bahia Urbina (Isabela)
• Fernandina and Isabela
• Rábida
• Tortoise Camp (Santa Cruz)
• Santa Cruz
• Peru
• Chinchero District and Sacred Valley of the Incas
• Machu Picchu
• Cusco

South American Expedition

In July of 2016, I booked the trip of a lifetime for Mary's upcoming birthday.